Button.



0. P. TALLEY.

BUTTON.

APPLIOATI ON FILED APB-.20, 1907.

926,51 5. Rammed June 29, 1909.

Ina/en for M02655 es 0 71)? F 751/294] UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIN P. TALLEY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Burrow.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed April 20, 1907.

Serial No. 369,856.

mg is a s ecifieation and which are illustrated in t e accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to buttons of that form adapted to be secured to a garment without sewing, and the object of the invention is to provide a button which may be firmly attached to a garment of any usual thickness,,and may, if desired, be subsequently removed without injury to the fabric from which the garment is composed.

The invention contemplates a button having securing means comprising two bodily separable telesco ing members, the inner member being a c as which when separated from the outer may e applied to a garment to which the button is to be attached, and which will be compressed to firmly gri the fabric of the garment by the re-assem ling of the parts, the head of the button being carried by the outer member. F The invention is exemplified in the structure to be hereinafter described, and illustrlatetd in the accompanying drawings, in w 1c Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the inner member of the button-securing means in pTosition upon a garment; 7 Fig; 2-is similar to 1g. 1, but shows the parts of the button assembled; Fig. 3 is a central vertical section showing the head of the button and the outer member of the securing means; Fig. 4 is a sectional detail viewed from the line 4-4,

.which the parts shown in Figs. 5 and 6 are formed; and Fi 8 is a. central vertical sect1on showing t e parts of the button'asj sembled.

The-head of the button is designated 10,

and, as shown in drawings, it, 1s of sheetmetal, and is provided with' an apertured shank 11. I For securing the button to a gar.-

ment, two bodily separable telescoping members are rovided, the outer member 12 taking the orm of a yoke adapted to straddle the marginal ed e of the garment and made rigid by ongitu inal ribs 13-.14. The head 10 of the button is permanently secured to the yoke member 12, preferably by expanding a flange 15, which is turned outwardly about an. aperture 16 formed in one arm of the oke, within the apertured shank 11 of the utton. j

A clasp 17 for securing the button to a garment is removably fitted within the yoke member 12. As shown, this clasp is of spring metal, and is formed from a blank, shown in Fig. 7, bent to the form of a V having a flaring or bell-shaped mouth. Prongs 18 and 19 are turned inwardly from each arm of the V, and these prongs are preferably of suchlength that the ends of those extending from opposite sides of the V do not overlap when the clasp is in'its expandedposition, shown in Fig. 5, thus'providing for an'easy removal from anapphoation to the garment.

In use, the clasp 17 will be fitted over the marginal edge of a garment after the manner shown in Fig. 1 of the drawin s, and the yoke member 12 carrying the hea 10.0f the button will be passed over the clasp, the arms of the latter being compressed by this assembling of the parts to causethe prongs 1819 to firmly grip the fabric of the garment. A

catch is provided forsecuring the yoke mem- 22 o' the clas 17 rejects beyond the yoke.

member 12 w on t e parts are assembled, as most clearly shown in Fig. 8, to permit the clas to be compressed b leasing the parts 2021 0 the catch. When this has been done, the oke member 12 carrying the head 10 of the utton may be easll withdrawn from the clas and the latter w i then assume its expande form, shown in Fig.

be removed from the garment 5, and ma it is without in uring the fabric from which formed.

the hand for re- I claim as my invention, yqnd the. location of the tines, and a catch In combination, a V-shaptad clip, the arms ion-maintaining the parts in assembled posi- 10 of the clip having inwardly-directed tines adtron.

'acent their outer ends, a rigid button-earry- 5 ing yoke adapted to telescopically receive ORRIN TALLEY' and compress the clip, the ermsof the yoke, Witnesses: when the parts are in assembled position, CHARLES B.GI1LLSON, being engaged with the arms of the clip be- E. M. KLATGHER. 

